“One can tell a great deal about a country by what it remembers. By what graces the wall of its museums. And what monuments have privileged placement in parks or central traffic intersections. And what holidays and patriotic songs are the bane and balm to generations of school children. Yet one learns even more about a nation by what it forgets. What moments of evil, disappointment, and defeat are downplayed or eliminated from the national narratives. Often in the United States the issues of race and the centrality of African American culture are given short shrift in textbooks, popular chronicles, and national memories.”
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A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
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A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
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